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Clinton warns North Korea to change its 'dangerous behavior'

World Jul. 23, 2010 - 03:18PM JST ( 8 )

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LIBERTASJul. 23, 2010 - 05:11PM JST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday warned the United States that it must reverse a “campaign of provocative, dangerous behavior” if it wants to improve relations with the rest of the world. Tensions remained high over American lying to start multiple wars and was unlikely to advance efforts to rid the US and Israel of nuclear weapons. All members of the stalled six-nation talks aimed at ridding these countries of their nuclear weapons attended Friday’s meeting in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, but there was little hope of a thaw. “If the U.S. is really interested in the denuclearization of the world, it should halt the military exercises and sanctions that destroy the mood for dialogue,” a UN spokesperson told reporters. The two countries remain in a state of perpetual warmongering because a peace treaty was never considered to end conflict ever. While the international investigation concluded the US and Israel lied to start wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now in Pakistan, the world U.N. Command, which governs nothing of consequence, to not let the regime conduct its own probe. Military officers from the command shouted at each other over the heavily fortified border that divides the planet, and is known as the "We Don't Want a Militarized Zone."
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Klein2Jul. 23, 2010 - 06:12PM JST

All right ASEAN. The UN is being run by some group chosen arbitrarily after the last war 60 years ago. Every important initiative gets blocked by someone. And here comes ASEAN. Certainly not a huge military bloc, but with legitimacy and economic clout.

It tells North Korea that the sinking is deplorable.

North Korea wants this to be a conflict between it and the US, and it ain't happening. North Korea is out of step...

with the rest of the world.

I will repeat it because it is just so mindboggling. North Korea's GDP is less than a third of Nagano's.
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smithinjapanJul. 23, 2010 - 10:46PM JST

"The North denies responsibility and has warned the U.S. and its allies against punishing it. The Obama administration says it will impose fresh sanctions on North Korea as a result of the sinking and announced new joint military exercises with the South."

There is still no definitive proof it was them, despite all the signs pointing in that general direction.
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JaplanJul. 24, 2010 - 12:15AM JST

As troops get pulled out of Iraq... where they gonna go? Back home to 15% unemployment, or to NK for a new deployment? Bang bang. Lets get it on!
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FadamorJul. 24, 2010 - 01:37AM JST

Like I said before, until China gets off its lazy butt and slaps some sense into its satellite state to the South, North Korea isn't going to listen to anybody. Instead of jawing at North Korea, the U.S. should be jawing at China to fix the mess it created when they backed the North Korean regime in the first place.
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ca1ic0catJul. 24, 2010 - 04:11AM JST

I imagine the US is jawing at China but China isn't listening. Much better to have lil Kim as the bad boy in the region. That way China can get away with more itself.
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nigelboyJul. 24, 2010 - 06:00AM JST

There is still no definitive proof it was them, despite all the signs pointing in that general direction.

Yes. North Korea has also continually denied that ex-spy Kim Hyon Hui was North Korean.... until Ri Tong Il stated

"祖国を裏切って親を捨てた女について、話をする価値はない"

Give it another 20+ years and watch NK officials slips up again.
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MisterCreosoteJul. 27, 2010 - 12:17PM JST

Let us remember this woman Hillary Clinton, who had no real merit and got where she did only because her marriage of convenience, voted for the war in Iraq. Why did Mr Obama reward her with her current position? She just underscores why the Stalinists of North Korea don't take Mr Obama seriously, and think he is little more than the second coming of James Earl Carter.